Christmas Music: Sam Phillips

In October 2009, Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter Sam Phillips announced the formation of her Long Play subscription service. For $52, over the course of a year, fans of her music would receive 5 digital EP's, one digital full-length release, and occasional bonus downloads.  Amongst the EP's was last December's Cold Dark Night, a slightly dark collection of four traditional Christmas carols and two originals: the title track, and "It Doesn't Feel Like Christmas." While, in my humble opinion, Sam's voice is worth the price of admission all on it's own, the quality of the songs and recordings make it well worthy of the dollar-a-week she's seen fit to charge. Check out "It Doesn't Feel Like Christmas" above, or the promo for Cold Dark Night here, and consider giving yourself a little Christmas present from Sam. After December, it'll be gone...

Classic 90's folk-pop band Toad The Wet Sprocket is also offering a free download of their cover of Sam's song. It's their first group recording in 10 years, and they're still sounding strong.

Comments

[René]

I loved Toad the Wet Sprocket, saw them open for Johnny Winter (!?!?) once upon a long ago time. Very glad to know they're back at it. Thanks, David.

[David Shepherd]

You got to see them live? I'm officially jealous. They're a fantastic band with some classic songs. All I Want is a pop masterpiece. Their cover here is a bit on-the-nose, but it rings sincere in their tribute to Sam. Kind of cool to see different artists I admire tipping hats to each other.